Ambulance targets: Plan for longer times revealed

Name: Ambulance targets: Plan for longer times revealed
Uploaded: 2014-12-21T07:33:24.000Z
Duration: 2 min 35 s
Description: The BBC has seen plans to extend ambulance response times for some serious, but non-critical cases in England.

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Target times for ambulances to reach some seriously ill patients could be lengthened, the BBC has learned.

A leaked NHS document includes plans to change the response time for those with "serious but not the most life-threatening" conditions - from eight to 19 minutes in England.

Dominic Hughes reports.

Health

21 December 2014